Vista Boot up issue

[loco05]

I havent had any Vista issues, until now. :(

I was setting up from Fantasy football stuff and I noticed that the computer was "stuttering" when I typed or moved the mouse. after a few seconds I got a frozen mouse and beep from the sound card ( I could down the Volumn down).

I rebooted and all I got after the loading bar was a black screen for 20 min. I booted up in safe mode but no luck either. The last driver to load was Null.sys. It froze again for 20 min so I tried "last good configuration". No dice there either.

Im going to try a repair of Vista and hope it works... anyone else have ideas? This is my main computer so no more gaming for the time being.

Im running Vista Ultimate (x86) with Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB Ram. SATA Hard drive with 250 GB. I have sound and video cards connected too.

[loco05]

Found the issue, it was my controller card for the IDE drive I was using as a back up. Once I pulled this card out and left the sound card in, things were back to normal. Now Im trying to decide on which SATA HD I want to use as a back up now that Im not going to use that other IDE drive:

500 GB Caviar Green SATA (Western Digital) 32 Mb cache

500 GB Caviar Blue SATA (Western Digital)16 MB cache

[MakuraRyu]

Just making sure I am getting the cache right.
32Mb = 32 megabits is less than 16MB = 16 megabytes
8 bits = 1 byte

I think either way go for the green. Speed shouldn't be a concern for a backup device and the green series are touted for having less power requirements. Which is good since the drive will site idle most of the time.

[Crotan]

Just making sure I am getting the cache right.
32Mb = 32 megabits is less than 16MB = 16 megabytes
8 bits = 1 byte

You're correct but in this case I think it was just a matter of him mistakenly putting a lowercase b on the 32MB

[Riccochet]

I can't see any reason to get a "green" drive. Cost wise you'd be better off getting a 640GB AAKS. $10 more and dual 320 platters vs one 500 platter. They've been the benchmark of speed in the 7200rpm drives for a while now. And if your main drive takes a shit you can fall back on this with no performance hits.

That's just my $0.02.

[loco05]

Geez, I must have been in a hurry when I typed my first post, I had more than just the 32Mb typo ... :)

I like Western D, I've never had issues with them the last 10 years (Knock on wood).

Thanks for the info Ricco on the 640GB AAKS. If I dont find one I might go with the drive with the bigger cache. Ive got movies, MP3s and all other kinds of media files on the back up. I read from this drive often so it will make a difference.

The price difference is only 3 bucks.